“Moonfall” (** out of four) was a half-baked sci/fi action thriller about a mysterious force which knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling forward at a relentless pace on a crash course towards Earth and only a group of astronauts (Patrick Murphy, Halle Berry, John Bradley) can stop it. Some spectacular visual effects and set pieces can’t stop this from ringing hollow as it seems like a reheated rehash of director Roland Emmerich’s “Independence Day” and “2012” and also “Armageddon.” Berry is unusually weak here and most of the characters are pretty one-note. Watch “Moonraker” again instead.

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